In addition to calling on the country's farmers to prepare to "take up arms" in the event of an attack by the United States Army, Nicolas Maduro assured that his country has more international support than before the start of the naval deployment in the Caribbean Sea by the Trump administration.

"Today we have more international support from social movements, human rights organizations, organizations that defend the right to peace, governments in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the world than before the start of this aggression," the president said in his weekly program 'Con Maduro +', broadcast on the state channel Venezolana de Television (VTV). by Caracas.

"Six weeks ago, a psychological, political, diplomatic aggression, and a military threat against Venezuela by the United States government, and what it has done is achieve a national consensus around the defense of Venezuela's sovereignty and peace," Maduro said.

US has intercepted four vessels allegedly attributed to drug trafficking in the Caribbean, near the Venezuelan coast, since August, at least three allegedly originating from Venezuela, according to the White House, and the fourth of them, whose origin is unknown, sunk on Friday night in waters off the Dominican Republic.

Recently it became known that the Maduro government sent a letter to Trump, inviting the President to preserve peace with dialogue and understanding, but the response was not what I expected.

According to international agencies, the US government described it as full of “lies.”

Likewise, White House representative Karoline Leavitt confirmed on Monday that they had received a letter from the “illegitimate” president of Venezuela, but warned in a press conference that “Maduro repeated many lies in that letter, and the Administration's position on Venezuela has not changed.”